Dear Nintendo

Dear Nintendo,

I used to love Nintendo. Back when I was a kid I would play NES and eventually SNES for hours and hours. At one point in middle school I was called the Wizard since I was the best kid at Nintendo. Since high school and afterward, I've since lost interest in most video games, but there are still plenty of classic games I would happily play again if I had a good medium for it.

Enter the iPhone 3.x with its support for hardware accessories.

Here's what you do to make a lot more cash with little work on your end: make a controller that plugs into the iPhone/iPod touch, feels like the SNES controller of old, and has a few added bonuses like a rumble box and (more importantly) additional power for the iPhone itself. Then, take a bunch of the NES/SNES games from the days of yore, add in some iPhone 3.x features (such as multiplayer via bluetooth), and start selling them on the store for $2 each.

It would be amazing -- I'd happily buy Excitebike, all of the Zeldas and Mario Brothers, and Street Fighters and Mortal Kombats. Nintendo benefits from creating all sorts of revenue it hasn't seen in years without having to really do anything new, and Nintendo wouldn't have to invest tons of money in hardware, which is usually a very tough business.

Open up the API for your device and I would imagine you'd see tons of other developers wanting to write for a standardized, high quality controller -- even Sega!